This is not necessarily true. Sorry to pick on you but, you know... I've a whole slew of posts and pictures and discussions about automotive related things. I believe that makes me able to skip the novella. But, if you want a novella, I can do that.;-)
The gist of what said novella would say is that I have taken the same model year - and have done so with recent automobiles, and consumed less fuel in a manual. I did the driving for both. Both were on the same route. Both were at nearly same temps. Both had tires inflated to proper levels. No alterations were made.
Disclosure: Err... I had to make multiple runs with the manual in order to get it below the consumption level of an automatic. Today's automatics are really much more efficient than they used to be.
Err... I am in Florida for the winter. Right on the beach, too. 'Snot that I deny climate change. It is that I can do math. I'll be dead and gone before it is - unless a hurricane gets it. It's insured.
At the same time, I don't go burning tires and and taking a semi on my foliage viewing trips.;-) I'm not a monster, after all.
I did but I do have a nice place on the beach in the Florida panhandle. It's growing on me, this is the longest I have ever been to this house.
I haven't any way to measure any average rise but if it has risen then it isn't by a whole lot. I'm also a bit more than 20' above water level at high tide. - if my GPS is accurate.
Back in 2007-2008, I sold my business. I sold it for a healthy sum - an unimportant number. However, I wanted to donate, to give, some of the money to the government. Really, the vast majority of my success was from municipalities and federal contracts. Had it not been for them, I'd have been a bit boned.
So, I wanted to donate to NASA and I did some checking around and wrote a few emails. I even wrote them myself, actually. (At the time, I was fairly newly minted and I had a full-on financial advisor that I worked with almost daily for a while.) Well, it turns out that you can donate to NASA but you can't earmark the funds for an educational outreach program or for researching a trip to Mars. The money has to go into the general fund.
It's got an odd deduction status - the money gifted was not counted as income - but other than that it reduced my tax burden naught one bit. LOL To be honest, I was squirreling money away like no tomorrow. I was filling out forms (signing them at least) to make all sorts of corporations come into being, as fast as time would allow. The tax burden for that sale was HUGE. I... I had no idea... Well, I was warned but a warning just doesn't cut it. My accountant was laughing at me when I saw the estimates. Holy shit...
Ah well... I'm still very grateful for the good fortune.
You almost certainly don't have the wealth to take as great an advantage as he does but you can file for incorporation and reduce your tax burden, legally, quite a bit.
I think it's important to note that they aren't just saying they want higher taxes. They want higher taxes for a reason - to go towards something. The government doesn't have a revenue problem, they've got a spending problem. Giving them more money, without caveats, means they'll use it on a down-payment for another bomber.
Some sort of specific tax pools, untouchable for anything other than intended, might be nice but they'd probably just be compelled to spend the money that normally would have gone towards those things on something entirely unrelated instead of in addition to them. Err... That's not my best sentence structure.
The people you speak of are a subset of the others. You shouldn't (really) paint with such a large brush. I've been pretty fortunate in life and I've been saying similar to this for years now.
Yeah, got that now. That's not what they'd said but it's what they'd meant. The misinterpretation was mostly mine. I should have picked that up from context, I did not.
Neat. In my head, I'm picturing something maybe a full 1/2" diameter of twisted pairs - maybe a bit more. I imagine that'd be pretty flexible still. The thinking I had was that it'd run into a box, a router if you will, and then out from there. Sort of a pole (probably fiber) to the home via copper. Copper bing much more resilient than fiber, that just seems to make some possible good sense to me. You can't even really bend fiber too much before it's ruined. As said above, I've seen it under ice with trees and telephone poles on it. I have a generator, batteries, and use solar and wind - so I still have power when that happens. So far, I've never lost connectivity. I've had it slow way down - but never stop. Fiber isn't gonna do that - and a lot of us live back off of roads. I'm thinking apartment complexes, buildings, etc...
So, not huge honking things. How big does it get before it's unwieldy? That's the size I'm talking about - just before it hits that threshold.
Ah! Alright, thanks. And yeah, it's kind of odd that VGA is still here. There's still all sorts of stuff with it.
I'm willing to be that there's at least one Slashdotter who *prefers* it. I do not know why but I bet they've got a reason.;-) It is odd that it is still around. I can't think of any other video termination that's been around that long.
What plans do you have to make it any better on more than just the tiniest of scales? 'Cause lots of use do things like release our stuff with open source licenses and, truth be told, it hasn't really changed the playing field except for in the area of software.
I'm not suggesting we give up (or they) but that they be realistic about their goals, avoid hyperbole, and actually do things that might make a difference if enough of us join in. How do we get this changed? I've got a few bucks, I'm open to suggestions. I donate to the EFF and ACLU - in those regards. I release everything under public domain - completely release it. I don't even limit it with the GPL or BSD licenses. Nope, have at it. I don't even need to be referenced, claim it is your own and do what you will.
What the hell more can we do? I'm not fond of taking their rights away from them but I'll willingly give up my own. I'd like to see those rights reduced in length but I've no problem with them determining who does and who doesn't get to use it based on any criteria they want to use. I'm also pragmatic enough to know that people are just gonna pirate it. So, they might as well pirate it and have themselves a good time.
Hmm... That might be binary, I'm not really sure. I think it's more resignation and pragmatism.
I am kind of curious as to how that plays out. It pops up on NPR once in a while. I keep an ear out to see if anything major happens but nothing yet. I think they might bail if the UK splits with the EU. I figure they might split then and then join the EU directly. It should be interesting.
They have obviously never had botulism. I won't get into details - I've shared them before. Botulism is not your normal tummy ache. Botulism is what kills you because of the force of you trying to expel all fluids from any hole in your body. Your heart ruptures, or a vein in your head or neck will burst like a bubble. Botulism is still very deadly today. It sucks.
No, I know lots of devices that are developed for that are embedded. I've mentioned before that I know multiple people who own things like factories - where they even have to go so far as to modify the operating system to add new equipment - real development, not just inserting parameters. Sheesh. As in *real* development work. Not just uploading a playlist, if I meant that then I'd have said that.
It's okay - no other OS is sure to work with everything either. The person above said it was perfect. It's not. If it were perfect it would work with everything in all situations. You're not gonna try to tell me that you think it does that, are you? Not even *you* are that irrational.
Hell, I've got a buddy who owns a wood mill. He has a bunch of those old Radio Shack hand-held things, TRS-something or others. He uses them to develop (as in write a whole set of stuff to it and change the operating system on it) for a neat planer that he really likes and won't get rid of. It's development enough so that he writes new things for it and it not only changes what it does, it changes what the menu options say, what they do, and all that jazz. It's real development. It's stupid but it's the first one that pops to mind - it works with nothing, at all, except some stupid ass connector that hooks to one of those hand-held things. He's got like a dozen of 'em and every connector wire he could buy from eBay. There are others - I don't even have to go far to think of other examples.
And no, he uploads a whole new program in some proprietary gibberish that he understands (I've no idea what it is - it's not assembly or anything handy), it requires a special card that goes into the hand-held, and I'm gonna stick with calling that development if there ever was development. It's not like he's just uploading coordinates, he's setting it up so that his workers can input certain variables via the keypad - which he also has multiple replacements for.
He's never, ever getting rid of that damned thing. It's some very expensive planer except it also works as a shaper and can cut, sand, all sorts of neat things. It'll even feed into a conveyor which will send stuff on to the next station. It's kind of neat - a Mac won't help him. I believe the card translates his gibberish into the machine's gobbledygook. I've only watched him poke at it a few times. Usually when there's a surge or something and it wipes it completely so he figures he might as well improve it seeing as he's gotta redo it.
LOL It's all good. The gist of it is that I support Qubes and hope to be able to use it someday. Right now, I have needs it doesn't really fill. I've even aided them financially 'cause I want to use it.
Ah! Okay. I get it now. I was awfully confused 'cause I was pretty sure I'd seen you post enough times to not think you're dumb. Now that I look at the thread, in context, I probably should have picked up on that - so the fault is partially my own. I understand how they came to be a part of the UK - within reason and probably pretty well for a non-historian. I was awfully confused, as I said.
It could be worse, they could be Wales. I forget the name of the King who stomped through just building castles - a whole slew of 'em. I don't know all the details (I am not a historian, I watch documentaries) but that's one of the premier dick moves in all of history. Some of the castles they built were huge. Mike Lodes (spelling) has a few documentaries that get into it. I like him.
Like I said, it's just entertainment for me. I don't just watch silly US documentaries. I don't get into the "stupid ones" that a soccer mom might like. I like energy dense documentaries with few intensive graphics, few sound effects, and actual facts - 'cause I will check facts and I will watch multiple documentaries about the same subject. There sure are some skewed views of history...
Absolutely - however, I don't think that *currently* the voting members usually see jail time or even the inside of a court room. I could get behind that. Limited Liability should be about accidental indemnification and not used as a license to commit societal harms.
Yes, yes I just said that.;-)
People think I'm some sort of crazed zealot about capitalism, small government, and refusing to allow the state to protect the people - all of the people. Oddly enough, that couldn't be further from the truth. Ah well... Sadly, I feel obligated to mention that at this moment. It's not for your sake, you know that. It's for the others who seem inclined to read my posts and then completely misinterpret them.
"No, I don't favor the color yellow." "Why did you say you hate yellow, Chinese, Asians, and want to murder everybody and their babies?" "Err... ???"
That's actually not too bad a paraphrasing, if I do say so myself. How ya doing this morning?
Not bad, 8 out of 4,000,000+ users. You show 'em tiger.;-)
'Snot my fault you got shunned. You're the goober that kept posting the same thing over and over again and stalking people. I can't say that people haven't warned you enough times - you should have known it was coming.
Did you figure out what they filtered you on/with or what? It'd be funnier than hell if you figured out a way past the filter. I must confess, I'm kind of rooting for it to happen. I'd be systematically figuring out what was filtered and what wasn't but I'm a bit tedious like that. Actually, got a link to one of your older posts with all the words in it? (From before the shunning.) I might get bored and sit down and figure out what words they put into the lameness filter.
Meh, I just walk around naked in my bedroom. Now that they've fled the nest, well... I'd walk around naked now but I have people here still - except now there's only three extras and the missus and I.
So, there's a lock on the door. I use it. 'Cause I like being naked.
VGA... Was that the bastard that had like a half-dozen different specs or was that the good one that is still in use?:/ (I really haven't paid any attention at all since HDMI.)
I might be thinking of an eVGA or an SVGA or something. Like 12 pins, two screws? If it was the one that was fairly universal for a while then I don't have any hate for it. I do kind of have some hate for one of the ones that had a whole bunch of different things and they were all named the same thing - and I think the damned adapters were the same things. Mid-1990s to about 2000 or so. If it's the one that came after that, I'm not too annoyed with it. That one was fairly universal and didn't seem to require me to do anything important.
However... Err... Since about the time HDMI came out, I've used that. I did have some interim crap that was not too well supported. DVI maybe? HD-*** something or other?
Yes, yes I am absolutely a professional at remembering all those damned acronyms. (No, I'm not. It's my story, I'll tell it any way I want to.)
So, if it's the shitty one then I agree. If it's the one that I still see on some of my desktops (even an occasional laptop but often on desktops with motherboard support for on-board graphics but I usually add a graphics card of one type or another) then I don't have any major hate for that. It survived for a while, was rugged enough, and was pretty universal in my experience. Tough to output to some televisions but not bad. If it's that one then I'm not sure why you'd hate it.
But, if it's the one that came before it (I think it supported up to 800x600 or maybe 1600x800 and some only 400x300 and some between them and the plugs all looked the same) then I hate that bastard.
Yup. That there's some professional lingo - them's the technical terms. (Yes, yes I am a wee bit stoned this morning.)
I'd say the mass killing, slavery, burning, starvation (we definitely won't let them starve), lack of health-care, etc... Nah, there's still a whole lot of differences.
That doesn't mean that I like it - it just means you're minimizing the hell out of the WWII era NAZI concentration camps when you compare the two. I don't give two shit but I suspect somewhere there are people who'd be either appalled or angry with your doing so. I've been to two of the old camps and I've seen a lot of documentaries as well as read a bunch of books.
Maybe you just don't know what happened in them? They're not even remotely similar. Not really. That doesn't mean this isn't a tragedy in and of itself but, c'mon now... That's pretty hyperbolic, don't you think? Or do you really not know what went on in them?
Not by the Romans, no... But, umm... Are you *sure* that Scotland wasn't conquered? I seem to recall them getting their asses handed to them - some melodramatic guy in a long coat and with long hair told me about it in his giant 5 hour long series about the history of Scotland. It was BBC so I don't think they'd lie about it. Some Lion King or something like that - sometime around 1200 IIRC? I think it might have happened more than once. There was some dude named Bruce but he might have been Welsh. Err... I watch a lot of documentaries but not to actually learn anything - I just find 'em entertaining. I'm pretty sure Scotland's been conquered before.
Hadrian didn't conquer it but there's some new information from some digs. He didn't really wall it off so much as he gave 'em a gate inward where he could tax them and whatnot. They found bits of wood that went unburned and they're able to use various light waves to read 'em. I wanna say it's a mix of infrared and then they use blue to bring out the color - I've seen that one a few times.
At any rate, I'm pretty sure they've been conquered at least once. I think even the Dane's had their way with 'em at one point.
Nah, developers *includes* embedded. In other words, they're developers too and a Mac's just not gonna be universal there. I don't imagine that any particular OS will win that round but it's a damned good probability that I can find something a Mac can't be used to program, something in the embedded sphere, pretty easily.
They can't just say that it's good for all developers. It's not. There's a subset for whom it is not good for. I don't think any OS can hold that title. Sadly, Windows might come closest. More so given the many things that have proprietary interfaces and only have Windows software - and ports that won't work in a VM so virtualizing it isn't gonna help.
That's the *least* strange thing I yell out. Often it involves a cowboy hat, a lawn gnome, and a five gallon tub of mustard. What I say is the least of anyone's concerns. And no, she sticks around because I pay well.
You trundle up to any Juarez bar with a hijacked truck full of Ho-Hos, leave the keys in the ignition and back door unlocked, go to the bar, order a margarita - no salt - with cherries and not a lime, and then ask for Julia. She'll be out for you when she's ready.
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This is not necessarily true. Sorry to pick on you but, you know... I've a whole slew of posts and pictures and discussions about automotive related things. I believe that makes me able to skip the novella. But, if you want a novella, I can do that. ;-)
The gist of what said novella would say is that I have taken the same model year - and have done so with recent automobiles, and consumed less fuel in a manual. I did the driving for both. Both were on the same route. Both were at nearly same temps. Both had tires inflated to proper levels. No alterations were made.
Disclosure: Err... I had to make multiple runs with the manual in order to get it below the consumption level of an automatic. Today's automatics are really much more efficient than they used to be.
Err... I am in Florida for the winter. Right on the beach, too. 'Snot that I deny climate change. It is that I can do math. I'll be dead and gone before it is - unless a hurricane gets it. It's insured.
At the same time, I don't go burning tires and and taking a semi on my foliage viewing trips. ;-) I'm not a monster, after all.
I did but I do have a nice place on the beach in the Florida panhandle. It's growing on me, this is the longest I have ever been to this house.
I haven't any way to measure any average rise but if it has risen then it isn't by a whole lot. I'm also a bit more than 20' above water level at high tide. - if my GPS is accurate.
Back in 2007-2008, I sold my business. I sold it for a healthy sum - an unimportant number. However, I wanted to donate, to give, some of the money to the government. Really, the vast majority of my success was from municipalities and federal contracts. Had it not been for them, I'd have been a bit boned.
So, I wanted to donate to NASA and I did some checking around and wrote a few emails. I even wrote them myself, actually. (At the time, I was fairly newly minted and I had a full-on financial advisor that I worked with almost daily for a while.) Well, it turns out that you can donate to NASA but you can't earmark the funds for an educational outreach program or for researching a trip to Mars. The money has to go into the general fund.
It's got an odd deduction status - the money gifted was not counted as income - but other than that it reduced my tax burden naught one bit. LOL To be honest, I was squirreling money away like no tomorrow. I was filling out forms (signing them at least) to make all sorts of corporations come into being, as fast as time would allow. The tax burden for that sale was HUGE. I... I had no idea... Well, I was warned but a warning just doesn't cut it. My accountant was laughing at me when I saw the estimates. Holy shit...
Ah well... I'm still very grateful for the good fortune.
You almost certainly don't have the wealth to take as great an advantage as he does but you can file for incorporation and reduce your tax burden, legally, quite a bit.
I think it's important to note that they aren't just saying they want higher taxes. They want higher taxes for a reason - to go towards something. The government doesn't have a revenue problem, they've got a spending problem. Giving them more money, without caveats, means they'll use it on a down-payment for another bomber.
Some sort of specific tax pools, untouchable for anything other than intended, might be nice but they'd probably just be compelled to spend the money that normally would have gone towards those things on something entirely unrelated instead of in addition to them. Err... That's not my best sentence structure.
The people you speak of are a subset of the others. You shouldn't (really) paint with such a large brush. I've been pretty fortunate in life and I've been saying similar to this for years now.
Yeah, got that now. That's not what they'd said but it's what they'd meant. The misinterpretation was mostly mine. I should have picked that up from context, I did not.
Neat. In my head, I'm picturing something maybe a full 1/2" diameter of twisted pairs - maybe a bit more. I imagine that'd be pretty flexible still. The thinking I had was that it'd run into a box, a router if you will, and then out from there. Sort of a pole (probably fiber) to the home via copper. Copper bing much more resilient than fiber, that just seems to make some possible good sense to me. You can't even really bend fiber too much before it's ruined. As said above, I've seen it under ice with trees and telephone poles on it. I have a generator, batteries, and use solar and wind - so I still have power when that happens. So far, I've never lost connectivity. I've had it slow way down - but never stop. Fiber isn't gonna do that - and a lot of us live back off of roads. I'm thinking apartment complexes, buildings, etc...
So, not huge honking things. How big does it get before it's unwieldy? That's the size I'm talking about - just before it hits that threshold.
Ah! Alright, thanks. And yeah, it's kind of odd that VGA is still here. There's still all sorts of stuff with it.
I'm willing to be that there's at least one Slashdotter who *prefers* it. I do not know why but I bet they've got a reason. ;-) It is odd that it is still around. I can't think of any other video termination that's been around that long.
Hmm... Binary or realistic?
What plans do you have to make it any better on more than just the tiniest of scales? 'Cause lots of use do things like release our stuff with open source licenses and, truth be told, it hasn't really changed the playing field except for in the area of software.
I'm not suggesting we give up (or they) but that they be realistic about their goals, avoid hyperbole, and actually do things that might make a difference if enough of us join in. How do we get this changed? I've got a few bucks, I'm open to suggestions. I donate to the EFF and ACLU - in those regards. I release everything under public domain - completely release it. I don't even limit it with the GPL or BSD licenses. Nope, have at it. I don't even need to be referenced, claim it is your own and do what you will.
What the hell more can we do? I'm not fond of taking their rights away from them but I'll willingly give up my own. I'd like to see those rights reduced in length but I've no problem with them determining who does and who doesn't get to use it based on any criteria they want to use. I'm also pragmatic enough to know that people are just gonna pirate it. So, they might as well pirate it and have themselves a good time.
Hmm... That might be binary, I'm not really sure. I think it's more resignation and pragmatism.
I am kind of curious as to how that plays out. It pops up on NPR once in a while. I keep an ear out to see if anything major happens but nothing yet. I think they might bail if the UK splits with the EU. I figure they might split then and then join the EU directly. It should be interesting.
They have obviously never had botulism. I won't get into details - I've shared them before. Botulism is not your normal tummy ache. Botulism is what kills you because of the force of you trying to expel all fluids from any hole in your body. Your heart ruptures, or a vein in your head or neck will burst like a bubble. Botulism is still very deadly today. It sucks.
No, I know lots of devices that are developed for that are embedded. I've mentioned before that I know multiple people who own things like factories - where they even have to go so far as to modify the operating system to add new equipment - real development, not just inserting parameters. Sheesh. As in *real* development work. Not just uploading a playlist, if I meant that then I'd have said that.
It's okay - no other OS is sure to work with everything either. The person above said it was perfect. It's not. If it were perfect it would work with everything in all situations. You're not gonna try to tell me that you think it does that, are you? Not even *you* are that irrational.
Hell, I've got a buddy who owns a wood mill. He has a bunch of those old Radio Shack hand-held things, TRS-something or others. He uses them to develop (as in write a whole set of stuff to it and change the operating system on it) for a neat planer that he really likes and won't get rid of. It's development enough so that he writes new things for it and it not only changes what it does, it changes what the menu options say, what they do, and all that jazz. It's real development. It's stupid but it's the first one that pops to mind - it works with nothing, at all, except some stupid ass connector that hooks to one of those hand-held things. He's got like a dozen of 'em and every connector wire he could buy from eBay. There are others - I don't even have to go far to think of other examples.
And no, he uploads a whole new program in some proprietary gibberish that he understands (I've no idea what it is - it's not assembly or anything handy), it requires a special card that goes into the hand-held, and I'm gonna stick with calling that development if there ever was development. It's not like he's just uploading coordinates, he's setting it up so that his workers can input certain variables via the keypad - which he also has multiple replacements for.
He's never, ever getting rid of that damned thing. It's some very expensive planer except it also works as a shaper and can cut, sand, all sorts of neat things. It'll even feed into a conveyor which will send stuff on to the next station. It's kind of neat - a Mac won't help him. I believe the card translates his gibberish into the machine's gobbledygook. I've only watched him poke at it a few times. Usually when there's a surge or something and it wipes it completely so he figures he might as well improve it seeing as he's gotta redo it.
LOL It's all good. The gist of it is that I support Qubes and hope to be able to use it someday. Right now, I have needs it doesn't really fill. I've even aided them financially 'cause I want to use it.
Yeah, I'm a bit verbose.
Ah! Okay. I get it now. I was awfully confused 'cause I was pretty sure I'd seen you post enough times to not think you're dumb. Now that I look at the thread, in context, I probably should have picked up on that - so the fault is partially my own. I understand how they came to be a part of the UK - within reason and probably pretty well for a non-historian. I was awfully confused, as I said.
It could be worse, they could be Wales. I forget the name of the King who stomped through just building castles - a whole slew of 'em. I don't know all the details (I am not a historian, I watch documentaries) but that's one of the premier dick moves in all of history. Some of the castles they built were huge. Mike Lodes (spelling) has a few documentaries that get into it. I like him.
Like I said, it's just entertainment for me. I don't just watch silly US documentaries. I don't get into the "stupid ones" that a soccer mom might like. I like energy dense documentaries with few intensive graphics, few sound effects, and actual facts - 'cause I will check facts and I will watch multiple documentaries about the same subject. There sure are some skewed views of history...
Thanks for clearing it up.
Absolutely - however, I don't think that *currently* the voting members usually see jail time or even the inside of a court room. I could get behind that. Limited Liability should be about accidental indemnification and not used as a license to commit societal harms.
Yes, yes I just said that. ;-)
People think I'm some sort of crazed zealot about capitalism, small government, and refusing to allow the state to protect the people - all of the people. Oddly enough, that couldn't be further from the truth. Ah well... Sadly, I feel obligated to mention that at this moment. It's not for your sake, you know that. It's for the others who seem inclined to read my posts and then completely misinterpret them.
"No, I don't favor the color yellow."
"Why did you say you hate yellow, Chinese, Asians, and want to murder everybody and their babies?"
"Err... ???"
That's actually not too bad a paraphrasing, if I do say so myself. How ya doing this morning?
Not bad, 8 out of 4,000,000+ users. You show 'em tiger. ;-)
'Snot my fault you got shunned. You're the goober that kept posting the same thing over and over again and stalking people. I can't say that people haven't warned you enough times - you should have known it was coming.
Did you figure out what they filtered you on/with or what? It'd be funnier than hell if you figured out a way past the filter. I must confess, I'm kind of rooting for it to happen. I'd be systematically figuring out what was filtered and what wasn't but I'm a bit tedious like that. Actually, got a link to one of your older posts with all the words in it? (From before the shunning.) I might get bored and sit down and figure out what words they put into the lameness filter.
Meh, I just walk around naked in my bedroom. Now that they've fled the nest, well... I'd walk around naked now but I have people here still - except now there's only three extras and the missus and I.
So, there's a lock on the door. I use it. 'Cause I like being naked.
VGA... Was that the bastard that had like a half-dozen different specs or was that the good one that is still in use? :/ (I really haven't paid any attention at all since HDMI.)
I might be thinking of an eVGA or an SVGA or something. Like 12 pins, two screws? If it was the one that was fairly universal for a while then I don't have any hate for it. I do kind of have some hate for one of the ones that had a whole bunch of different things and they were all named the same thing - and I think the damned adapters were the same things. Mid-1990s to about 2000 or so. If it's the one that came after that, I'm not too annoyed with it. That one was fairly universal and didn't seem to require me to do anything important.
However... Err... Since about the time HDMI came out, I've used that. I did have some interim crap that was not too well supported. DVI maybe? HD-*** something or other?
Yes, yes I am absolutely a professional at remembering all those damned acronyms. (No, I'm not. It's my story, I'll tell it any way I want to.)
So, if it's the shitty one then I agree. If it's the one that I still see on some of my desktops (even an occasional laptop but often on desktops with motherboard support for on-board graphics but I usually add a graphics card of one type or another) then I don't have any major hate for that. It survived for a while, was rugged enough, and was pretty universal in my experience. Tough to output to some televisions but not bad. If it's that one then I'm not sure why you'd hate it.
But, if it's the one that came before it (I think it supported up to 800x600 or maybe 1600x800 and some only 400x300 and some between them and the plugs all looked the same) then I hate that bastard.
Yup. That there's some professional lingo - them's the technical terms. (Yes, yes I am a wee bit stoned this morning.)
I'd say the mass killing, slavery, burning, starvation (we definitely won't let them starve), lack of health-care, etc... Nah, there's still a whole lot of differences.
That doesn't mean that I like it - it just means you're minimizing the hell out of the WWII era NAZI concentration camps when you compare the two. I don't give two shit but I suspect somewhere there are people who'd be either appalled or angry with your doing so. I've been to two of the old camps and I've seen a lot of documentaries as well as read a bunch of books.
Maybe you just don't know what happened in them? They're not even remotely similar. Not really. That doesn't mean this isn't a tragedy in and of itself but, c'mon now... That's pretty hyperbolic, don't you think? Or do you really not know what went on in them?
I think Unit 731 might be a bit more appropriate.
> Scotland wasn't conquered.
Not by the Romans, no... But, umm... Are you *sure* that Scotland wasn't conquered? I seem to recall them getting their asses handed to them - some melodramatic guy in a long coat and with long hair told me about it in his giant 5 hour long series about the history of Scotland. It was BBC so I don't think they'd lie about it. Some Lion King or something like that - sometime around 1200 IIRC? I think it might have happened more than once. There was some dude named Bruce but he might have been Welsh. Err... I watch a lot of documentaries but not to actually learn anything - I just find 'em entertaining. I'm pretty sure Scotland's been conquered before.
Hadrian didn't conquer it but there's some new information from some digs. He didn't really wall it off so much as he gave 'em a gate inward where he could tax them and whatnot. They found bits of wood that went unburned and they're able to use various light waves to read 'em. I wanna say it's a mix of infrared and then they use blue to bring out the color - I've seen that one a few times.
At any rate, I'm pretty sure they've been conquered at least once. I think even the Dane's had their way with 'em at one point.
Nah, developers *includes* embedded. In other words, they're developers too and a Mac's just not gonna be universal there. I don't imagine that any particular OS will win that round but it's a damned good probability that I can find something a Mac can't be used to program, something in the embedded sphere, pretty easily.
They can't just say that it's good for all developers. It's not. There's a subset for whom it is not good for. I don't think any OS can hold that title. Sadly, Windows might come closest. More so given the many things that have proprietary interfaces and only have Windows software - and ports that won't work in a VM so virtualizing it isn't gonna help.
That's the *least* strange thing I yell out. Often it involves a cowboy hat, a lawn gnome, and a five gallon tub of mustard. What I say is the least of anyone's concerns. And no, she sticks around because I pay well.
You trundle up to any Juarez bar with a hijacked truck full of Ho-Hos, leave the keys in the ignition and back door unlocked, go to the bar, order a margarita - no salt - with cherries and not a lime, and then ask for Julia. She'll be out for you when she's ready.
You'll thank me someday. Arrrrrrriba!
(I'm going to hell, aren't I?)